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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE HIGH production cost of sugar within India is a major stumbling block to the export of an existing large surplus, the country’s Minister of Food and Civil Supplies, Shanta Kumar has said at a press conference.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE KEE Pharma company, of India, has unveiled a new palate-friendly iron pill, Poliron, in chocolate and mixed fruits flavours. Iron pills are generally bitter to the taste, but important in India, where 55 per cent of the population, largely women and children, suffer from anaemia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SHIPPING industry is looking forward to the anticipated accession of China to the World Trade Organisation, which after 15 years of often tortuous negotiations, is likely to be rubber stamped this autumn and become reality next Spring.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
PETRONET LNG Ltd., a consortium of four Indian state-owned oil and gas companies, is to invite global engineering, procurement and construction bids for its Rs18 billion, 2.5-million-ton liquefied natural gas re-gasification plant project at Kochi, Kerala. A senior official has told India’s Financial Express that a contractor would be selected by January 2002.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE INDIAN Leather Garments Association has urged the Finance Ministry in New Delhi to mothball its recently announced reduced all-industry duty drawback rates, as far as the leather and leather product sector is concerned. It claimed that the new duty rates would “adversely affect” exports in India’s IND Rupees 18,000 million leather garment industry.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE AIRPORTS Authority of India has granted a 10-year licence to an international consortium to provide ground and passenger handling services at four of the country’s busiest airports, namely New Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay), Chennai (Madras) and Trivandrum.…

KEITH NUTHALL
CONVERSE, the international athletic footwear and apparel brand has been launched in India by Planet Sports. It is known for its helium technology-equipped hi-tech performance footwear, sporty sandals, and the All Star Canvas range. Prices range from IND Rupees 600-2,000.…

KEITH NUTHALL
SUPERHOUSE Leathers Ltd, of India, the manufacturers of the Allen Cooper brand, have launched a Moccasins range, with shoes made of a leather upper bent and rounded at the bottom, which is then bonded with the sole. They cost IND Rupees 1,499.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE, in Columbo, Sri Lanka
THE PRESIDENT of the Indian Footwear Components Manufacturers’ Association has asked the New Delhi government to set up a Rupees 1,000 million technology modernisation fund to help the sector “face international competition and gain confidence.”…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
A REVIEW of additional protective duties erected against spirits imported into India is not to be held by the government in New Delhi, the Press Trust of India has reported.

Instead, the central government has defended the imposition of extra customs duty on imported liquor, saying it was necessary to protect the domestic production industry and has added that it was considering imposing a 24 per cent flat rate on imported spirits kept in warehouses for more than 30 days.…